831
297
Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-up-or-well-make-google-ban-your-ads/
6 years ago
688
57
How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)
http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/book/preface
512
349
Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/02/17/2121236/twitter-locks-wikileaks-official-account-with-54-million-followers-days-before-julian-assanges-extradition-hearing
412
90
What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)
https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/idea-chain-themes
408
229
Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345150
397
121
Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/avoid-rewriting-a-legacy-system-from-scratch-by-strangling-it/
360
108
Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
359
50
Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
https://github.com/google/trax
309
98
Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EmYw-O-WLI
289
153
Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law
257
273
Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
https://sanderknape.com/2020/02/building-a-static-serverless-website-using-s3-cloudfront/
248
219
The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer
https://payne.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-10x-programmer/
240
41
Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)
https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
231
40
Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ray-tracing-essentials-part-1-basics-of-ray-tracing/
221
186
i3 4.18
https://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.18.txt
215
276
In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis
https://newrepublic.com/article/156591/wildcat-strike-grows-housing-crisis
210
125
Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349329
207
148
Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/google-backs-out-free-wifi-google-station-partnership-with-think-wifi-in-south-africa-2020-2
206
GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend
202
Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/iota-cryptocurrency-shuts-down-entire-network-after-wallet-hack/
176
SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/17/spacex-successfully-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-but-misses-booster-landing/
156
74
Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningServersNotTrivial
152
71
Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Android
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-samsung-stop-messing-with-linux-kernel-code-its-hurting-android-security/
55
An SSH server that knows who you are
https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1229093553269362689
150
27
On Design Thinking
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/reviews/on-design-thinking/
278
DisplayPort and 4K
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/
145
163
NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/836
138
149
An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/
79
Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record
https://blog.timothymullican.com/calculating-pi-my-attempt-breaking-pi-record
Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index
https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data
128
65
Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)
127
133
SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2020/01/sec-proposes-changes-to-accredited-investor-definition/
126
449
Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Tesla-teardown-finds-electronics-6-years-ahead-of-Toyota-and-VW2
1
Tesla teardown finds electronics ahead of Toyota and VW
227
Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/technology/jeff-bezos-climate-change-earth-fund.html
Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
https://www.blameless.com/structuring-team-software-reliability/
120
Jeff Bezos pledges $10b to launch Earth Fund for combating climate change
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/amazons-jeff-bezos-pledges-10-billion-to-launch-earth-fund-for-combating-climate-change.html
117
92
Move, simply
https://herbsutter.com/2020/02/17/move-simply/
66
SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/f4d8sg/rspacex_starlink4_official_launch_discussion/
104
59
ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-eso-telescope-surface-dim-betelgeuse.html
101
22
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation
https://github.com/lisper/emulator-sun-2
97
10
Show HN: IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
https://github.com/laixintao/iredis/
96
Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class
https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2020/02/thought-experiment-introductory.html
91
14
Insights – Open-Source Self-Hosted Business Intelligence Platform
https://github.com/mariusandra/insights
36
FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4
https://scruss.com/blog/2020/02/16/freecad-on-raspberry-pi-4/
89
29
Soviet Calculators History (1998)
http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/russian_calcs.htm
88
42
The Chaos at Condé Nast
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/style/details-dan-peres-book.html
87
69
Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-oldest-story-ever-told
86
12
The Big Data of Big Hair (2019)
https://pudding.cool/2019/11/big-hair/
83
81
Are courts keeping “junk science” out of the courtroom?
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological-assessment-in-legal-contexts-are-courts-keeping-junk-science-out-of-the-courtroom.html
7
How to Talk to Your Customers
http://howtomarketagame.com/2020/02/17/how-to-talk-to-your-customers/
78
53
Share your screen on Zoom with ultrasound
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629303-Direct-Share-with-Zoom-Rooms
75
44
Finite Element Method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method
Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax